Valve for steam or other fluids and liquids



June 4, 1929. H. L. MASON VALVE FOR STEAM OR OTHER.FLUID5 AND LIQUIDS Filed NOV. 6, 1926 J HAROLD LYHLL MASON,

' Patented June 4,1929;

UNITED ST TE,

HAROLD LYALL MASON, OFLONDON, ENGLAND.

VALVEFQR STEAM on ornnn FLUIDS'AND mourns. e

Application fileanovember e, 1926, Serial No. 146,77 and in Great Britain n1i1ber i 0, 1925,.

This inventionrrelates to valves for steam .or other fluids andliquids of the typec0m prising'a solid or imperforate piston as the valve proper with a co-aXial OPGI'ZItlIlgSPlIldle, and necessitating the provision of. alastic packing whose degree of compress on is elastic rings inserted in the boring in spaced relation. 1 h I My object is to provide an'iinproved valve of this kind, and to this end the invention is characterized in that the completei packing is constituted and assembled'as a plurality of independently adjustable units consisting of a simple structure in theform ofa single elastic ring or element, or a compound structure comprising a pair of elastic rings or elements and an associated interposed rigid an- ,nular or other member. r

A valve elnbodyingthe invention may in-e clude two ormore o fthepacking units whi'ch may be of the same type, or of different types, I

that is to say, theremay be incorporated in one valve asimple unit orunits and a compound unit or units, or two or more simple units, or two or more compound umts Itv is conven ent to point outhere that valves of the piston variety are known in which the packing is composed of U-shaped rings of flexible material and interposed rigid members in the form of spacer tubes. orthe like and relying upon the pressure'o-f the fluid or liquid within the valve to maintain a seal; ff and, further, that it has been proposed 1nconnection with an open-ended tubular piston valve to employ two elastlc packmg rings spaced by a rigid lantern member and assov ciated with agland adapted to simultaneously adjust the rings according to one construction and to adopt, according to another construction, two separately-adjustable packings of thestufiing box and gland variety.

I will .now 'fully describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings which illustrate, by way of example, two forms of it embodied in steam valves and Whereof- Fig. 1 is a central' sectional elevation' oi a stop valve and Fig. 2 isa central sectional 6 a V a casing in the fullyeopened pas twat elevation of a blowofi valve, I I

v prising asimple packing unit;

The same letters of reference are adapted throughout to lent. parts.

According'to one example, illustrated Flgr l, which comprehends; a stop valve where1n the inlet and outlet are in horizontal alignment, theyalvecasingais of an ordinary construction comprising a d aphragm l) dividing-the inlet c from the outlet d, and

having a cylindrical boringvein axial alinement wlth a, boring 7 in the top of the casing a communicating w1th'a'stuffing boxi g. The

designate'the sameor, equiv'a piston h is, as usual, solid, that is'to:sayimperforated, and itis assembled in these bor mgs e and fand-adapte'd to be actuated as usual and as represented at i. The boringje at the lower face of the'diaphragm Z) isenlargedso'thata seat j for packing is obtains,

and a boring Z in alinement with the-boring e is made in the bottom ofthe casing a. The

latter boring Z isscrewed forthe rece'pt-ion of ulating head a. V p The inner end of the plug m-ls peripherally recessed, to form'a seat 0 for'packing p. ,BYlf'lIlQi'lllOH through the I a plug m furnished with a' polygonalma'nipthe ring 70 ;iaaa, finally, the plug n, with the H packing ring 10 positioned infits seat, is screwed into theboring Z; Consequently, the rmgsjlc and p and the annularfmember g constitute a. compound "packing unit-,1 the j [rings 70 and .72 being tightened or slackene'dfon I .'the appropriate operation of the plug m.

A packing ring 1*- situated in the stuffing box 9 at thetop of the valve casing a, and it is" tightened or slackened by a'g'land' s in the customary way, this arrangement thuscom-' The annular member Q of the compound packing unit is provided with ports t+-t to form V a Ivcomponent of the steam passage. However,fdue to the location of this member Y 7 9, these ports't[t are'-below the diaphragm b- I instead of abo ve as in the known arrange 10o ment, and, therefore, they are notrdirectly with the inside face of the to of the valve a I'will now describe the example which is shown in Fig. 2 and contemplates a blow-off valve'where inthe inlet and outlet d are at right angles to each other, although the order may be reversed, that is to say 41 may constitute the inlet and cthe outlet. The wallsof the casing a are formed with a boring f in one case, and Z in the oth'er inalinementwith v the inlet 0, and inthis boring fZ a solid piston h is arranged, Concentric-ally with each boring 7 and Z, the wall is'i'ashionedwith a larger boring'constituting a stufling box and ointo whichis inserted a packing ring and p. 'The ring 1" in one stuffingfbox g is held in position by a glands as usual through wh'ichthe pistonh projects for operation in any suitable way as delineated at The ring 10 in the other-stuffing box 0 is maintained in position one end oian annular member g inserted in the box 0 and'secured a gland nut m applied to theexterior thereof. The

' 7 free or outer endofthe annular member q is adapted .to be connected to one ofthe branch pipes, which, as represented, is the one communicating with the inlets, W'hen the-piston h is fullyiclosed its inner extremity projects slightly into the annular member gas 'indicated,'andwhen fullyopened'aligns with the inner face'of the casing a. Thus the packing units 1 and are of"simple structure, and are ,indepen ently tightened or slackened,

one the annular member g and comple- 7 tion of the packing in units, coupled with I i ,iflental gland nut m, and the other by the glands. 7 I

It will now; be evident that the constructheir independent adjustment, presents sundry practicaladvantages, such as, inter .alia,

the use of packing rings or elements 7", 7c and p of difierent ki-ndaor ofdifi'erent dimensions both in the one va lveto'meet various 7 services and ,designs. Thus, for instance, the

piston It may comprise a plurality of spaced elements of the same or different diameters, one or more of the elements constituting the valve proper, and the other vorother-s a ba l- ;ancing agent or'agents', each element being,

if requiredj,' associated with a simple or compound priate.

Also it {will be manifest'that'facility for access to the valve casing a is afforded by the plug on in the stop-valve example shown in member g in theblow-ofi' valve example illus trated in Fig. 2-.

v In the examples described with reference axially, but, of course, the adjustment may capable of ,circumferentia'l adjustment by a tangentially-applied screw-device Also the packing elements 70, and '1" may be of any configuration tome'e-t the shape of the piston h and-the casing a. Thus, fol-instance,",they maybe oval or'square internally or externally, or curvate atone face and plane at theother. i

r WVhat I claim and desire -to secure by Letters Patent 'isj: i r

l. Valves for packing unit as may be most approfluids and liqui-clsof a e F 1,:land by theigland nut m and annular i comprising an "imperforate piston the valve proper with a co-axialo-perating spindle and elastic packing aboutthe piston Whose degree of compressionis capable'oi' variation or adjustment, characterized in that the complete packing is composed oii'a plurality of g units and in that eac'hunit isj independently adjustable.

2 Valves v having a solid piston as the valve proper and packing of t'he'piston composed of a plural-.-

ity of units wherein one unit is of compound for fluids and liquids of at kind 7 structure consisting'of'elastic elements and a rigid annular member-interposed between 1. them, said annular member-having port through its wall between said elements, and

the packingof one element differing i n's-ize from the packing of ithe otherl I I r In testimony whereof, I afiix 'my signatu-re.- 

